Series Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (CHILL) A series of lectures on Chinese linguistics. Programme 27 Feb Lecture Tone Change in Cantonese Chen Weiqiang (Huanan Normal University, Guangzhou) 13 Mar Lecture Fine phonetic details in phonological typology: Uncommon onset and tone interaction in Chinese dialects 27 Mar Lecture A settled pair, a simple link: Mandarin bare clauses as simple predication 10 Apr Lecture The special use of the 3rd person singular pronoun in Cantonese Joanna Sio (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic) 24 Apr Lecture The lenition of voiced initials of Middle Chinese in Maolin Wannan Wu Chinese. A discussion on the lenition of aspirated initials in Chinese dialects Yuan Dan (East China Normal University, Shanghai) 08 May Lecture How do Mandarin speaking children build bridges: a syntax-discourse interface study Xie Yuan (Utrecht University) 22 May Lecture Sentence-final particles in Mandarin Fang Hongmei (University of Amsterdam) 20 Jun Lecture Modeling the areal diffusion of Chinese dialects: A case study of Suzhou Wu Chinese and its sub-varieties He Huang (Shanghai University)
